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Melody Jue
Click Here to Register What would media and literary studies look like, underwater? In Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater (2020), I show how the ocean can be a science fictional environment for defamiliarizing concepts, offering cold and briny contexts in which to rethink what it means to store and organize information. After outlining how scuba diving...
Online event
Watch the world premiere of Lázaro González’s film, Pándēmos (2021), this weekend for free here. The premiere a part of the Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale University. Lázaro González is a current PhD student in the Film & Media program at UC Berkeley. Synopsis: A gay Cuban filmmaker moves to San Francisco during the Covid-19...
142 Dwinelle Hall
Kelly Sears
Filmmaker and Animator Kelly Sears in person to present an evening of award winning experimental animation films. Kelly Sears is an experimental animator who cuts up and collages imagery from American culture and politics to intervene with the history embedded in the frame. Working with appropriated images ranging from thrift store cast-offs to archival material, she uses...
Nestrick Room, 142 Dwinelle
Lauren Cramer, University of Toronto
Cosponsored by the Department of African American Studies The reviews of prolific music video director Harold “Hype” Williams’s one and only feature film, Belly (1998), are withering. Regarding the “brutally stylish” film, reviews describe Belly as a “gratuitous” but “dimly lit” collection of “crotch shots, topless dancers, wall-sized television screens, ganja galore and, wherever possible, crime without...
142 Dwinelle Hall
Karen Beckman
Karen Beckman, Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of the History of Art, Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania November 20th, 5:00 pm 142 Dwinelle ...
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Armond R. Towns
Click Here to Register for the Event Who is the human in media philosophy? Though media philosophers have argued since the twentieth century that media are fundamental to being human, this question has not been explicitly asked and answered in the field. Armond R. Towns demonstrates that humanity in media philosophy has implicitly referred to a social Darwinian understanding...
Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex, D23
Zamansele Nsele and Nicole Starosielski
Elevate your lunch break with The Loft Hour, a new year-long series that invites new arts faculty to riff on their work over lunch, in an informal conversation moderated by an ARC-affiliated faculty member. The October program features Zamansele Nsele (History of Art) and Nicole Starosielski (Film & Media) in conversation with Roshanak Kheshti (TDPS). Zamansele Nsele is Assistant Professor of Modern and...
Nestrick Room, 142 Dwinelle
Jeff Scheible, King’s College, London
Berkeley Film and Media Seminar Series presents: Jeff Scheible, King’s College, London “The Ideology of Alternation: Ping Pong, Narration, and Contemporary TV” This talk examines the recurrence of ping pong across recent television—including The Morning Show, I May Destroy You, Atlanta, and The Americans—to consider how the game and its iconography participate in what Martin Brückner, Sandy Isenstadt, and...
142 Dwinelle
Matthew Frye Jacobson
Situated at the intersection of Documentary Studies, Public Humanities, and Ethnic Studies, this talk examines the politics of white displacement and resentment as they emerged in the Obama years and crystallized in the arrival of Trumpism. An array of differing temporal frames—the deep historical past, the Obama moment, the arrival of Trumpism, and the view from...
The Berkeley Film & Media Seminar Presents: WARREN SACK “A HISTORY OF THE DEMO AND A FUTURE FOR THE ESSAY”
Dwinelle 142 (Nestrick Room)
Speaker: Warren Sack
In a chapter on rhetoric in his recently published book, The Software Arts (MIT Press, 2019) he recounts a history of demonstration. Aristotle tells us that the strongest rhetoric is closely tied to logical demonstration. The history of the “demo” starts in ancient Greece, when definitive demonstration was a matter of deduction as practiced in geometry. In the 17th c....